Event Details

This is the second event in the Bay Area for Personal Cloud hackers, builders and makers.

Doors Open 6pmMix, talk, eat, drink.

Presentations 7pm No long preso's they have 5 min + 2 min questions

Networking 8pm Connect with all the prestors and fellow personal cloud enthusiasts

Ending 9pm

This is the second meeting is a space where people building personal clouds, developers building personal and community applications, and people intrigued by the possibilities can meet and talk. The agenda:

Mix, talk, eat, drink.

Brief overview: What is a Personal Cloud and why might anybody want one?

David Beckemeyer - Imagine a Social Network Where You Control the Data Store

Want to present? We are seeking people in the community who want to present at the meeting. Please contact Adrian Blakey at: adrianblakey AT gmail DOTCOM.

A little background on Personal Clouds.

A Personal Cloud is similar to a personal computer that runs in the cloud. Just like a personal computer gave control over computing to individuals, personal clouds give control over cloud computing to individuals.

Contrast this to cloud application providers to whom we give up our data, like Google or Facebook, who monetized our data for their benefit – not ours. Just like in the age of the mainframe, the Googles and Facebooks of the world decide which apps we get to run on our data and what terms to dictate to us.

Many of us think we can do better. The core idea of Personal Clouds is to put control back into the hands of the individual: control over our data, our apps, and over the terms of service.

Many hackers have been running early forms of personal or community clouds for years on their own server because they did not want to turn over their data, or their branding, or any other aspect of control to others. Using open-source software such as blogging tools, forums, file and photo sharing and, often, custom code, they set up what's right for them, their families and their communities. Personal Clouds take this idea mainstream, where it has profound implications for a more user-centric, decentralized way of commerce and community. For example, personal clouds make Vendor Relationship Management possible. VRM is the idea that individuals will manage relationships to their vendors the same way vendors manage their customers via CRM. (VRM is courtesy of Doc Searls, one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto, and a Harvard Law School fellow.)

Staying in Touch

If you'd like to learn more about Personal Clouds and stay in touch via a mailing list, take a look at the Personal Clouds Wiki.

When & Where

Orange
60 Spear Street
San Francisco,
CA 94105

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)

Organizer

Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium

The Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium is focused on connecting all the companies Empowering People with Their Personal Data. Our Startup Circle members build personal control of personal data into their products and services. PDEC supports its members through community, education, advocacy, and research programs.